{"id":10361,"date":"2022-09-13T15:54:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/seakeeper-9-7hd-installation-manual-90222-9-copy\/cooling-installation\/connecting-seawater-to-heat-exchanger\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:27:15","slug":"connecting-seawater-to-heat-exchanger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/seakeeper-9-installation-manual-rev10\/cooling-installation\/connecting-seawater-to-heat-exchanger\/","title":{"rendered":"4.3  Connecting Seawater to Heat Exchanger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Refer to Figure 4 for typical <span translate=\"no\">Seakeeper<\/span> 9 seawater plumbing arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Connect seawater from installer-supplied pump to lower \u00be in. (19 mm) hose barb on heat exchanger. (See Figure 1) Use the same practices as other below waterline seawater plumbing. Required flow rate is 4 GPM (16 LPM) minimum and 8 GPM (30.3 LPM) maximum.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Connect seawater discharge (upper hose barb) to overboard drain. (See Figure 1) Use the same practices as other below waterline seawater plumbing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In addition to initial operation at dock, new installations should be checked for minimum 4 GPM (16 LPM) flow while vessel is at speed and when backing down. If no other method of confirming flow is available, discharge line may be temporarily diverted to a bucket. Flow is calculated from time to fill a known volume. A self-priming seawater pump (customer\/installer supplied) may be required due to installation location to maintain water flow in all underway conditions where cavitation near the intake may occur and potentially cause an air-lock condition restricting seawater flow to the heat exchanger.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inspect raw water plumbing after sea trial for any signs of leakage.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heat exchanger contains removable endcaps to provide access for cleaning the tube bundle.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1486\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-32.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-32.png 1486w, https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-32-768x349.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1486px) 100vw, 1486px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><strong>Figure 4<\/strong> &#8211; <span translate=\"no\">Seakeeper<\/span> 9 Typical Plumbing Arrangement<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refer to Figure 4 for typical Seakeeper 9 seawater plumbing arrangement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":10353,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"manual":[261],"model":[],"document_type":[],"hidden":[],"class_list":["post-10361","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","manual-seakeeper-9-installation-manual-rev10"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10361"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13395,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10361\/revisions\/13395"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"manual","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual?post=10361"},{"taxonomy":"model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/model?post=10361"},{"taxonomy":"document_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document_type?post=10361"},{"taxonomy":"hidden","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.seakeeper.com\/seakeeper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hidden?post=10361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}